Latest Aviation Headlines
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U.S. Will No Longer Enforce Mask Mandate on Airplanes, Trains After Court Ruling
Apr 19 2022 // The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a key White House...
Delta Airlines Ends Surcharge on Unvaccinated Workers
Apr 19 2022 // Delta Air Lines has dropped a $200 per month surcharge that it had been levying against unvaccinated employees who were on the company’s health plan. “We have dropped as of this month the additional insurance...
Flight Attendants Settle Discrimination Suit with Colorado-based Frontier
Apr 18 2022 // Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Denver-based Frontier agreed to...
EU’s Tweak to Sanctions Allows Some Aircraft Lessors to Sell Stranded Jets to Russia
Apr 15 2022 // An amendment to European Union sanctions last week created a potential path for some aircraft financiers to sell jets held in Russia to the airlines now operating them without permission. The measure, published April 8,...
DHL Operated Boeing Jet Breaks in Two After Skidding Off Runway
Apr 11 2022 // A Boeing Co. 757 cargo jet operated by DHL broke in two after skidding off the runway at Juan Santamaria International airport in Costa Rica. The crew reported hydraulic problems with the 22-year-old aircraft after takeoff...
Small Plane Crash Kills 2 in Central Texas; FAA, NTSB to Investigate
Apr 8 2022 // Two people were killed April 5 when the small plane they were flying in crashed near a Central Texas airport, officials said. Those aboard the single-engine Cessna TU206H were a man and a woman, according to the Texas...
Qatar Airways Says It Wasn’t Obliged to Accept Deliveries of Flawed Jets From Airbus
Apr 8 2022 // Qatar Airways said it wasn’t obliged to accept deliveries of Airbus SE A350 jetliners until an issue with surface paint is fixed, accusing the European planemaker of lowering its standards to minimize the problem. In...
Aircraft Lessors Seeing ‘Horrendous’ Hikes in Insurance Premiums: BOC Aviation
Apr 7 2022 // The likely huge insurance claims related to the cancellation of aircraft leases in Russia is already leading to “horrendous” hikes in the cost of renewing policies, the chief executive of major lessor BOC...
Airbus, Qatar Airways’ Dispute Over Billions of Dollars of Jets Enters UK Court
Apr 7 2022 // Airbus and Qatar Airways are set to face each other in court as a dispute over billions of dollars of jets enters a theatrical phase and rattles some airline leaders. The Gulf carrier will on Thursday ask a UK judge to...
Solar Storm to Hit Earth, Prompting Monitoring by Airlines, Electric Grid Operators
Apr 5 2022 // A solar storm will sweep across the Earth Wednesday night, raising prospects of dazzling Northern Lights visible as far south as Chicago while prompting airlines and electric-grid operators to step up monitoring of the...
Aviation Re/insurers Face Claims as High as $10B From Planes Grounded in Russia
Apr 4 2022 // Insurers and reinsurers could face claims as high as US$10 billion in a worst-case scenario due to the grounding of planes in Russia, Fitch Ratings said. More than 500 planes that are financed or owned by non-Russian...
Connecticut’s Bradley Airport Website Hit by Cyberattack
Mar 31 2022 // Connecticut officials said they were monitoring a cyberattack Tuesday that attempted to crash the website of Bradley International Airport but had no impact on operations. The Connecticut Airport Authority, which oversees...
Aircraft Leasing Firm AerCap Files $3.5B Insurance Claim for Jets Stuck in Russia
Mar 30 2022 // AerCap Holdings NV, the world’s largest aircraft-leasing firm, is seeking about $3.5 billion from insurers related to jets and engines stuck in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. The claims were filed last...
Russian Airlines Could Be Frozen Out of Aircraft Leasing Market After Ukraine War
Mar 29 2022 // Russian airlines could be frozen out of the aircraft leasing market well beyond the Ukraine conflict, one of the industry’s biggest players warned on Tuesday, blaming what executives have described as a default...
Irish Lessors Terminate All Russian Airline Leases
Mar 29 2022 // All Irish lessors terminated their Russian airline leases by Monday’s European Union sanctions deadline and have so far had limited success in recovering their aircraft, the representative body for the sector in...
Analysis – Aircraft Lessors Lose Hope of Getting Back Russian Planes Worth $10B
Mar 28 2022 // As the clock runs down to Monday’s sanctions deadline for Russian airlines to hand back more than 400 leased planes worth almost $10 billion, foreign lessors are fast losing hope that they will get their aircraft...
Update: One of Two Flight Recorders Located From China Eastern Plane Crash
Mar 23 2022 // The cockpit voice recorder from the China Eastern Airlines Corp. aircraft that crashed on Monday has been found and sent for analysis. Officials said all three pilots had current licenses, valid health certificates and...
People Moves: McGill and Partners Names Aon’s Mignon Deputy CFO; Lockton’s Pye Joins Miller’s Solicitors PI Team; HDI Promotes Dave as UK Head of Aviation & Space
Mar 22 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at McGill and Partners, Miller, and HDI Global Specialty. A summary of these new hires follows here. McGill and Partners, the boutique specialist re/insurance...
Aviation Re/insurers Face Claims as High as $10B From Planes Grounded in Russia
Mar 22 2022 // Insurers and reinsurers could face claims as high as US$10 billion in a worst-case scenario due to the grounding of planes in Russia, Fitch Ratings said. More than 500 planes that are financed or owned by non-Russian...
Rescuers Hunt for Victims, Flight Recorders After China Eastern Plane Crash
Mar 22 2022 // WUZHOU, China – Rescuers in southern China searched for survivors from a China Eastern Airlines jet on Tuesday after it crashed with 132 people on board and authorities said severe damage to the aircraft would make it...
